Behind the Scenes Winemaking Experience
In the Vineyard and Winery - Whicher Ridge
VINEYARD + WINERY Experience what it's like to be a winemaker by joining Cathy for a guided tour
Experience what it's like to be a winemaker and vigneron by joining Cathy for a guided walk in the vineyard and the winery.
These special tours are held on the first Saturday of every month, and gives you an insight into the work that goes into growing and making small batch wines.
There is always something different happening out in the vineyard or the winery depending on the time of the year.
In the vineyard it could be pruning, budburst, veraison, ripening or harvest, which are all critical points in the yearly journey of the grapes on a vine becoming wine.
In the winery, it might be barrel stirring, barrel topping, tasting wines in tank or barrel, testing wines in the lab, processing grape samples, plunging red ferments, pressing red ferments or filling barrels.
Each month, this experience will be different, depending on the time of the year that you join us.
This is an in-depth, immersive experience to find out more about how grapes are grown, what characters each variety has, and how the wines are cared for, to make sensational small batch wines that you enjoy sipping from a glass.
You will discover how much work goes into producing a bottle of wine, and how much of what you are tasting, depends on the skill of the vigneron and winemaker.
The tour in the vineyard and winery ends with a tasting of four of the wines that you learned about during your wander.